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        <p>I have a launcher on my desktop and want to add another one manually with the same icon. </p>

<p>When I go to the preferences of the existing launcher and click the icon, it doesn't take me to the folder where the icon is stored but just to my home folder.</p>

<p>How can I find out where the used icon of the launcher is located in my system?</p>

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    <div class="post-text"><p>Most of the time, the icon will be chosen from your current icon theme, rather than being referred to as an absolute path.</p>

<ol>
<li>Open Gedit</li>
<li>Drag the launcher into the Gedit window</li>
<li><p>Look for the <code>Icon</code> definition:</p>

<p><code>Icon=gnome-panel-launcher</code></p></li>
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<p>You can then find the icon <em>somewhere</em> in <code>/usr/share/icons</code>, depending on your theme.</p>

<p>Here's a quick python script that finds the correct icon path for you:</p>

<pre><code>import gtk

print "enter the icon name (case sensitive):"
icon_name = raw_input("&gt;&gt;&gt; ")
icon_theme = gtk.icon_theme_get_default()
icon = icon_theme.lookup_icon(icon_name, 48, 0)
if icon:
    print icon.get_filename()
else:
    print "not found"
</code></pre>

<p>Save it somewhere and run <code>python /path/to/script.py</code>. </p>

<p>It'll look like this:</p>

<pre><code>stefano@lenovo:~$ python test.py 
enter the icon name (case sensitive):
&gt;&gt;&gt; gtk-execute
/usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/48/gtk-execute.svg
</code></pre>

<p>Alternatively, you can just rummage around in <code>/usr/share/icons</code> until you find the icon you're looking for. </p>

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<p>Much easier: you can just copy and paste the launcher and change the name and command</p>
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        <td class="comment-text"><div><span class="comment-copy">Another common path to check is <code>&#47;usr&#47;share&#47;pixmaps</code>.</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="/users/3037/htorque" title="22012 reputation" class="comment-user">htorque</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><span title="2011-07-09 14:38:41Z" class="relativetime-clean">Jul 9 '11 at 14:38</span></span><span class="edited-yes" title="this comment was edited"></span></div></td>
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    <div class="post-text"><p>A little more info.</p>

<p>Normal launchers are really .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/. </p>

<p>For example: /usr/share/applications/usb-creator-gtk.desktop</p>

<p>(See <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html" rel="nofollow">http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html</a>)</p>

<p>Each desktop file has a line that specifies the icon, for example:</p>

<pre><code>Icon=usb-creator-gtk
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<p>When there is no path (and file extension) (as in this case), it means the icon is found (somewhere) in /usr/share/icons/ and the one used at run-time depends on the current theme and in some cases the display context (size).</p>

<p>Knowing the icon name (without extension) from the desktop file, one can find it/them as follows:</p>

<pre><code>$ find . -name "usb-creator-gtk*"
./hicolor/scalable/apps/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/32/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/16/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/22/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/24/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/64/usb-creator-gtk.svg
./Humanity/apps/48/usb-creator-gtk.svg
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